India: the E-Commerce Battleground

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This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services. 

The varying strategies whereby Amazon and Alibaba expand in India will one day provide an interesting case study of the global expansion strategies of e-commerce companies.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is looking to India and Southeast Asia for its next big growth surge. The Chinese e-commerce giant has made a steady series of acquisitions and tactical moves that suggest a concerted regional strategy as business in its home market matures, the WSJ reports.

Analysts say that e-commerce in India, the world’s second-most-populous country, could take ... (read more)